How to win: Goole District Heat Network

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East Riding of Yorkshire Council is progressing a Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) supported, low-carbon District Heat Network opportunity in Goole. This UK2 – Preliminary Market Engagement Notice serves as a market consultation exercise, providing potential lead developers the chance to shape the Council’s procurement strategy and delivery model. The Council would like to use this opportunity to test market capability and appetite to refine the future procurement and delivery strategy for this project. Goole sits at a key location in the Humber Industrial Cluster and is a primary tax and industrial site within the Humber Freeport, anchored by the 300-acre FREEPORT 36 logistics development. Backed by major investments like Siemens Mobility and Guardian Glass, the hub leverages prime M62, M18, rail and maritime connectivity to drive advanced manufacturing. Goole’s FREEPORT 36 Project is a developing 5.5 million sq. ft industrial and manufacturing park. The network will include the supply of heat to council-owned, public-sector, commercial, residential and several industrial customers. The network concept designs supply 4GWh of public sector demands (principally council and NHS), 2GWh

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• ✓Start early: it closes 10 November 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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